Green River LibGuides: Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Focused Web Searching

Washington State

Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources | WSU
ArcGIS: Northwest Large Fire Interactive Map "Displays large active fire incidents entered into the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) database by local emergency response groups." - for more, click on the map's "More Information" link.
Washington State Department of Ecology: Washington's Air Monitoring Network - Air Quality
Washington State Department of Ecology
The Washington State Department of Ecology is the state of Washington's environmental regulatory agency
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Consider clicking on "Research & Data" in the top most menu
Washington State Department of Ecology: Washington State Coastal Atlas Includes flood maps and public lands data, maps can be customized by region.
Washington State Department of Ecology: Water Supply
Washington Drought 2015 From the WA Department of Ecology. Past years' drought resource pages are available from the menu to the left.
Washington Smoke (Air Quality) This site is intended to be a more accessible version of the full "air quality" map that focuses on fire-related haze. Actively updated during fire season only.
Washington Wildfire Resources Provided by the Office of the Governor, Jay Inslee. Includes data, news updates, photos, and more.
Washington State Department of Ecology: Water Quality

USA.gov The portal to all official U.S. Government agencies, departments, publications, and more.
U.S. Geological Survey: Science Find articles, definitions and ideas for writing topics. Great place to find related, broader and narrower terms for other searches you do.
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS): Geospatial Data Gateway
Science.gov Science.gov searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.

U.S. Census Bureau: Maps & Data
U.S. Census Bureau: Index of Topics
Search for Census data alphabetically by topic
U.S. Census Bureau: 2010 Data
U.S. Census Data
Search census data limiting by topic, geography, years and codes (replaces American FactFinder)
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The Census Bureau stopped releasing new data in American FactFinder (AFF) at the end of June 2019 and transitioned to data.census.gov for data releases formerly on AFF. AFF will remain as an archive system for data and functionality that are not yet available in data.census.gov until March 31, 2020. After March 31, 2020, our American FactFinder will be decommissioned and no longer available.